Cartridge-loading machine.



J. J. G. PAUILHAC.

CARTRIDGE LOADING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 13, 1914.

1,174,344. Patented Mar. 7, 1 916.

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J. .l. G. PAUILHAC.

CARTRIDGE LOADING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.13,1914.

Patented Mar. 7, 1916.

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JEAN JACQUES GEORGES PAUILHAC, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

CARTRIDGE-LOADING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 7, 1916.

Original application filed July 31, 1911, Serial No. 641,479. Divided and this application filed March 13,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J nan JACQUES Gnoncns PAUILHAC, a citizen of the Republic of France, residing at Paris, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cartridge-Loading Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in machines for loading cartridges and more particularly to the devices provided in such machines for supplying the necessary wads to a case or shell which has previously received the desired charge of powder.

In the accompanying drawings the improved wad distributing device and means for introducing the wads into the cartridge cases are shown applied to a machine such as is illustrated and described in my earlier application, Serial No. 641,479, of which the present case is a division.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view, partly in section and with certain parts removed, of the machine referred to; Fig. 2 is a perspective detail of the actuating lever and the several parts connected therewith by which the case feeding and charge distributing devices of the machine are operated; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the Wad distributing and applying devices removed from the machine; Fig. l is a vertical sectional View through a portion of the devices shown in Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 is a detail view, showing the several wads assembled between a cartridge case and the reciprocatory rammer.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a suitable base or supporting frame on which is mounted a revoluble table 2 provided with a series of regularly spaced cartridge case holders 1. The table 2 is provided with peripheral notches 5 spaced uniformly wit the holders 1 and a pawl 6 on a main actuating lever 7 is adapted to engage said notches to rotate the table as said lever is rocked in one direction about its axis or pivot S.

In addition to imparting step by step rotary movement to the table 2 by means of the pawl 6, the lever 7 is connected with the actuating devices of the means by which the cartridge shells or cases are supplied to the holders 4, as the latter successively pass beneath a hopper 9, and with the means by Serial No. 824,522.

which a predetermined charge of powder is supplied to each case, as the latter passes beneath a feed tube 10. The connections between the lever 7 and said case feeding and powder supplying means comprise a link 11 having one end secured to the lever a 1 and its other end connected with an arm 12 on a vertical shaft 13, which shaft is provided with additional arms 14:, 15, respectively, arranged to cooperate with the case feeding and powder supplying devices, as more particularly explained in the aforesaid original application.

After a cartridge case has been delivered on the table 2 and has received the proper charge of powder, it will by the second following step by step movement of the table be carried beneath a wad holder or guide and a plunger or rammer 16, into the position shown at Fig. 5, wherein 17 designates the case or shell. The present invention is adapted to position by a single stroke of the main actuating lever 7 a plurality of wad forming disks so that all of the wadding desired fora cartridge may be inserted in the shell at a single downward movement of the rammer 16. T he particular embodiment of the invention illustrated is designed to thus supply three wad elements, for example, a disk 18 of an oily material, a relatively thicker card board disk 19 and a thinner card board disk 20. These several disks are supplied from tubular reservoirs 21, 22 and 23 by means which will be hereinafter more particularly described.

The tubes 21, 22 and 23 are supported above a corresponding series of vertically spaced plates or surfaces 24:, 25, 26, the distance between the lower end of each reservoir or container and its co-acting plate 24-, 25 or 26 being slightly greater than the thickness of the disks in the container. To enable the tubes or containers 21, 22 and 23 to be adjusted vertically as may be necessary in order to employ the apparatus for inserting wads of different thicknesses, each of said tubes is preferably supported by a bracket-like arm 27 which is fitted about a threaded standard 28 and supported in such manner that the tube may be adjusted vertically by manipulation of a milled nut.

While the crevices illustrated provide for assembling three disks to form a wad, it will be evident that the number of elements composing a wad may be increased or di-' A slide 30 is provided with a plurality of fingers or wad pushers 31, 32, 33, corresponding in number and relative arrangement to the distributing tubes 21, 22 and 23, beneath the lower ends of which tubes said pushers are adapted to pass. Said slide is connected by a link 34 with an arm 35 on a shaft 36. Near its lower end the shaft 36 is provided with an arm 37 connected by a link 38 with one end of a lever 39, the opposite end of which is fulcrumed on the frame of the machine. Mounted on the lever 39 is a roll 40 which fits within a slot 4:1 formed in a rearward extension of the main actuating lever 7 and extending eccentrically to the pivot of said lever. As the latter lever is rocked, therefore, the slide 30 will be reciprocated, and as the slide moves forward the lowermost disks 18, 19 and 20 will be pushed from beneath the containers 21, 22 and 23 into the path of a wad slide by which they are subsequently forced into position beneath the plunger or rammer 16. The wad slide comprises a member l2 which is connected with and extends upwardly from a link 43' that is supported by the main actuating lever 7. The slide 42 is adapted to reciprocate in alined slots 44: formed in the plates 24:, 25 and 26 and is provided with a series of lateral pro ections 45, 4:6, 47, which severally project over the upper surfaces of said plates, 24, 25 and 26, adjacent the slot 44 therein so as to engage the wad disks supported by said plates as the slide 42 is moved toward the rammer 16.

The parts are so arranged that the several wad disks are advanced into the path of he slide 42 when the latter is approximately in the position shown in Fig. 3 and at the next actuation of the lever 7 said slide 42 will be moved in the direction indicated by the arrow 03 in Fig. 3, thereby forcing the disks 18, 19 and 20 into a receiver arranged between the rammer 16 and the cartridge case 17. This receiver, as shown particularly in Figs. 3 and 5, comprises a stationary angular abutment 48 and a plurality of plate spring members 49, 50, 51, corresponding in number to the disks which are employed to form a complete wad. These springs, as shown in Fig. 5, act to hold the several disks in the relative posi tions in which they are supported by the plates 24, 25 and 26 until the rammer 16 is depressed to force the said disks into the case 17. As in the machine described in detail in the original application, this rammer or plunger 16 is operated independently of the lever 7 by which the table 2 and the wad feeding means are actuated.

After a wad formed as above described has been forced into a cartridge case, the latter, by manipulation of the lever 7, is carried beneath and caused to receive a suitable charge of shot and subsequently capped, sealed, and automatically ejected from the machine into a delivery chute or slide 52.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a machine for loading cartridges, the combination of a reciprocatory rammer, means for supporting a cartridge case in alinement with the rammer, a plurality of holders corresponding to the number of wad disks to be inserted in a cartridge case, each adapted to contain a series of wad disks, means for ejecting a disk from each of said holders, and means for positioning all of the ejected wad disks so that the entire number of disks required for a cartridge may be simultaneously inserted in the case by a single movement of the rammer.

2. In a machine for loading cartridges, the combination of a reciprocatory rammer, means for supporting a cartridge case beneath the rammer, a plurality of holders for wad disks, means for simultaneously remov ing disks from all of said holders, means for supporting said removed disks in different horizontal planes, and means for positioning the last said disks between the rammer and case, for the purpose described.

3. In amachine for loading cartridges, the combination of a reciprocatory rammer, means for supporting a cartridge case beneath the rammer, a plurality of holders, each adapted to receive a series of wad forming disks, means for simultaneously removing a disk from each of the series, and means adapted to successively engage said removed disks and position them between the cartridge case and rammer, whereby all of said disks may be forced into the case by a single stroke of the rammer.

4c. In a machine forv loading cartridges, the combination of a reciprocatory rammer, means for supporting a cartridge case beneath the rammer, a plurality of vertically separated wad disk supports, and a single slide adapted to engage a disk in each of said supports and position all of the engaged disks beneath the rammer, whereby a plurality of disks may be inserted in a cartridge case by a single movement of the rammer.

5. In a machine for loading cartridges, the combination of a reciprocatory rammer, means for supporting a cartridge case beneath the rammer, a plurality of vertically separated wad disk supports, a plurality of holders each adapted to receive a series of wad disks, a slide adapted to transfer a disk 7 from each of said series to one of said supports, and a second slide adapted to engage a disk on each of said supports and position all of the engaged disks beneath the rammer, for the purpose described.

6. In a machine for loading cartridges, the combination of a reciprocatory rammer, means for supporting a cartridge case beneath the rammer, a plurality of holders each adapted to receive a series of Wad disks, means for ejecting disks from each of said holders, a slide adapted by a single movement to position disks ejected from all of the holders beneath the rammer for the purpose described, and a single lever arranged to actuate both said ejecting means and slide.

7. In a machine for loading cartridges, the combination of a reciprocatory rammer, means for supporting a cartridge case in alinement with the rammer, holders for Wad disks of difi'erent thicknesses or character, each holder adapted to receive a series of disks of the same kind and the number of holders corresponding to the number of disks required to form a Wad, means for removing a disk from each holder, and means for engaging all of said removed disks and positioning them in a predetermined relation between the rammer and case so that all of the said disks required for a cartridge may be forced into the case by a single movement of the rammer.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

JEAN JACQUES GEORGES PAUILHAC.

Witnesses RAOUL THOMAS, CHAS. P. PRESSLY.

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